I’m teaching my Mastering Index Tuning pre-con at SQLBits and SQL Saturday Iceland, and part of the prerequisites is that you’re already familiar with my How to Think Like the Engine class and my Fundamentals of Index Tuning class.
Steve Jones highlights the importance he sees for data professionals in the containerization of software.
SQL Server Machine Learning allows you to run R and Python scripts from SQL Server. When SQL Server 2019 was released, Microsoft enhanced the security for this functionality, but it caused some existing code writing to the file system to to break. In this article, Dennes Torres explains the security enhancement and describes three ways to work with it.
This article shows how to solve a gaps and islands problem using simple algebra.
Learn how to format your SQL Server results in Excel using conditional formatting to quickly identify patterns and issues.
This article will explain how to import the data classification metadata for a SQL Server database into Data Masker, providing a masking plan that you can use to ensure the protection of all this data. By applying the data masking operation as part of an automated database provisioning process, you make it fast, repeatable and auditable.
Business users get great value from SSAS cubes. In this article, learn how to create a drill-through action in an SSAS multi-dimensional model cube.
With progress thwarted by a committee of panjandrums, will T-SQL forever remain in the doldrums? So wonders Phil Factor.
In this article in the series, Robert Sheldon provides a deep dive into HDDs.
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In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
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True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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